“Voices of Commons”

Planetary Embassy, 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, summer 2025.Each day a different nation-state , stateless nation , indigenous community broadcasts its messages  concerning the future of our planet .Giardini della Biennale , Calle Cazio
My contribution:
Reading-performing of my visual poem : “nature”(registered), (in French & in Greek)
&
Publication of my poem.
 
www: voice-of-commons.org/en/speaks ups/interviews/planetary-embassy
 
 
 
 
 
 

“…in the clouds”

Visual poem, 6 photos of da/da
AvantAppal(chia), cur(rent)is(sue), no12, Dec.2022.
Section: Avant Poetry
www.avantappalachia.com
 

September 2017

Monogatari II

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Published with English, Greek, and Japanese text in a single volume, Monogatari II (226 pages, b/w) features poems and photos inspired by the author’s travels in Japan.
Author: Demosthenes Agrafiotis

Publisher: “bibliotheque” editions
Themistokleous 76 & Valtetsiou
10680 Athens, Greece

Translators: Andriani PSARAKI (jp) – Vera SIDERAKI/James FAUBION (en)
Design: “Never trust a designer hired to design” & “Role play”
Read the PDF sample.

 

May 2017

MONOGATARI II

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Published with English, Greek, and Japanese text in a single volume, Monogatari II (226 pages, b/w) features poems and photos inspired by the author’s travels in Japan.
Author: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Publisher: Green Integer (USA).
Translators: Andriani PSARAKI (jp) – Vera SIDERAKI/James FAUBION (en)
Design: “Never trust a designer hired to design” & “Role play”
Order ebook online at Green Integer.
Read the PDF sample.

2017

Épigraphies

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Author: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Title: Épigraphies
Translator : Lucie Farnoux
Publisher: Éditions Virgile
ISBN: 2-908007-61-4
80 pages
Price: 15 euros

2016

4 poems in Russian [ru]

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Four DA’s poems translated in Russian by Pavel ZARUTSKIY

Published in review: γύρη – Pollen #4, 2016 (St. Petersbourg, Russia)

June 2016

Dialytika

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Billingual edition: French-Greek
Poems and drawings by Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated by :  Gerard Pierrat
Editions : La rumeur libre
96 pages
ISBN : 978-2-35577-076-0
Price : 15 €

Read a sample (pdf)

The book is also translated in english.

The book has been presented at the Marché de la Poésie 2016 (Poetry book fair), Paris

 

April 2016

Y,ES & DIAERESIS

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Read the press release (pdf).

Publisher:  Dusie Press
PubDate:  4/1/2016
ISBN:  978‐1-944253-­01-­1
Binding:  PAPERBACK
126  pages
Available from Amazon.
Translations by: John Sakkis/Angelos Sakkis.

The book includes poems from two poetry collections:

  • “ν,αι”  Erato editions (EL) / “y,es” Estepa press (EN/JP)
  • “Diaeresis,  “Klinamen” editions

Fragments:

(pre-historic sorrow)

curled up in a diaphanous
shell
I am indifferent
to knowledge
to usage
I stir only
for distances
the emptying of images
into the great maw.

—

lightly, lightly
a walking light
lightering the ones
and lightly.

Read book sample at SEEDINGS #1 (p. 126-136)